City University of New York Professor Ruth O'Brien complains in an op-ed that "too much force" had been used against Boston Marathon bomber Tamerlan Tsarnaev, who was killed by the police. -snip- This said, the mortuary pictures of the older brother of the two are extremely disturbing, raising questions as to whether the Boston Police Department captured him with too much force. I understand the explanation offered by Katharine Q. Seelye, William H. Rashbaum, and Michael Cooper. Yet, it does not ring true. A picture is worth a thousand words that will keep our ears ringing as we recoil from this photo. Images have a way of searing themselves into our memory in a way that cant be undone. We have an emotional memory, not just a rational one that is exemplified by words. While terrorism is about causing fear  again an emotion  we do have to account for our conduct in these extreme times when adrenaline is running high. At my home, to at least offset this, we turn off all media. I couldnt believe my sons explanation when they got home about one brother running over the other one. So I found a place to read about this, and I recoiled after seeing the picture. Still, we all know that terrorism, like crime, leads if it bleeds with the established media. The established media fixates on the domestic-violence or crime-of-passion aspect of terrorism, and it, too, inculcates more fear in all of us.

Rhetorical question:was this b*ctch equally repulsed be the images of the limbless bombing victims clinging to life, or the images that leaked out of Gosnell's abort-o-mat? This is the type mindset that that convinces herself that Martin Richard's death was a pre-adolescent suicide.

Not enough force, and accountability to those who let the terrorists in, and removed the dogs.

"What difference does it make?"

"Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it was once like in the United States where men were free." President Ronald Reagan

Unpopular, but my observation was that once the location of the #2 bomber was known, the police exhibited absolutely no fire discipline.....you could hear their supervisors yell to “cease fie, cease fire” throughout the video clip as the troopers fired full auto against apparently no return fire.....

I read somewhere that the younger brother, driving a carjacked SUV, tried to run down the police with while they were handcuffing the older one. The police managed to get out of the way, but the older brother was run over and dragged for some distance. If true, that may account for a few bumps and bruises.

It has also been reported that, as police closed in he may have attempted to commit suicide. That attempt failed but left him with a severe throat wound that required him to be intubated and sedated and left him in a critical condition at a Boston hospital.

I think she left out the part about how these two losers used too much force in trying to remain unarrested. If’they’d only have used the pressure cooker bomb and the handguns but not the pipebomb, dear Professor, perhaps they could have been arrested with less force????

I do have to admit that the cops fired a lot of rounds and there are no media reports that confirm Brother 1 was hit by police fire and the only bullet wounds #2 sustained, were apparently self-inflicted.

Well look at it this way...TC running over yer bro is probably what Allah would have wanted in the spirit if jihad....in this particklar case....how peaceful can a religion of peace get? See now big bro lies peacfully in a nice cool slab of marble one of the Boston morgues....And in the alternative....have you thought of this?...couldn’t the Boston Police just have ‘turned the other cheek’ in this situation and not engaged in this vicious one sided man hunt at all. Then might that gesture of other cheekedness have somehow softened the hearts of the kilers and then they’d just have lain down their guns and pressure cookers and left the country peaceably and quietly and quickly perhaps even gobernment provided choppers...thus ending this altogether ugly incident altogether. And most importantly, they’d have left it in the spirit of the religion of peace and in the peace word of the messenger. BWAAAAAAAAAACK! anyway.... PEACE OUT BRO, WORD TO YO MOMMA..

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